ROSES AS YEARLY RENT
After a lapse of five centuries, a ceremony was revived in the City of London recently, when a red rose and a white rose were" handed to the Lord Mayor (.Sir. Percy. Vincent) as rent for, a window in Seefhing Lane, states an exchange. •.-.-■■
Actually the window no longer exists. It was built by Robert Knolles, or Knollys, a military commander who served at the. siege of La Roche d'Orient in 1346, who was a resident in Seething Lane at the time of Watt Tyler's rebellion and was present when the rebel was felled at Siinithfleld by the Mayor, WalWorth.": As a reward for his services he ■ was-made a Freeman of the City by the City, and the King granted him-the manor of St.. Pancras.
When the window was "built out" objections were raised, but compromise was arrived at. He was allowed to retain the window on condition "that he pay a yearly rent of a rose, on the Feast.of; St. John the Baptist.'.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 15
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168ROSES AS YEARLY RENT Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 15
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